[xsl] Anybody know when "transform" became the term for the type of thing XSLT does?

Subject: [xsl] Anybody know when "transform" became the term for the type of thing XSLT does?
From: Daniel Paul O'Donnell <daniel.odonnell@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:26:00 -0600
Hi everybody. As part of an article, I'm talking about the immediate
prehistory of XSL. I'd be interested in knowing when transformations
became known as transformations. I assume as part of the DSSSL work? Or
is it a scripting language term? Any ideas? Rather than an OED-style
hunt for the earliest occurrence, I'm really looking for a sense of when
extract and markup translation (is that a good definition?) began to be
commonly referred to as a "transformation".
-dan
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